Overcoats and social notes from Wadena area
Local shoppers hear of Berg's low prices on winter overcoats as residents mingle at West Union and nearby towns. The column records dozens of visits, birthdays, family gatherings, and community events including Scout Troop 77 testing, tractor school in Mason City, and a five hundred club gathering. Special: Echo and Enterprise offer for new Fayette and Clayton county subscribers at 25 cents through March 1, 1932.
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Echo and Enterprise
Fayette
Clayton Counties
Unti
United Brethren Church Activities Schedule
Rev C L Randall pastor leads Sunday school at 10, Young People's Endeavor at 7 30, and evening worship at 8. Prayer service Thursday at Mrs J S Moore’s home. Rev W S Elliott of Lehigh preached the quarterly services Saturday and Sunday, then left Tuesday for Blue River Wisconsin. Mission Band met at Forest Moore Tuesday with 18 present. Next meeting January 19 with Marie John. Christmas program planned for Christmas Eve at the church.
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C. L. Randall
Young People's Christian Endeavor
J. S. Moore
W. 5S
Elliott
Lehigh
Blue River
Wis
Mission Band
Forest Moore
Marie John
Presbyterian Church Christmas Party and Pageant Announcement
The Presbyterian Church in Wadena invites worship at 11 with junior choir practice at 7 30 Saturday. Junior Sunday schoolers enjoyed a Christmas party with games lunch and gift exchange. A pageant The Angel's Sage to the World will be presented December 23 at 8 p.m. A new Christmas tree and background are noted. Everyone is welcome.
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H. C. Rundell
The
Presbyterian Sunday School
Wadena Presbyterian Church
Wadena School Notes Vacation and Christmas Programs
Wadena School will close Friday for a two week vacation. Students prepare Christmas programs for Friday afternoon. Several students were absent for illness last Thursday and Friday. Seniors demonstrated in physics Friday, with juniors to present their demonstration next Friday. The biology class studies human body parts and a bake sale by juniors occurred Saturday at the Bigler store. Government dedicates five million dollars annually to research and development of new fruit strains.
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Helen Stannard
Francis Raffix
Ethel Faye
Frances Jones
Bigler Store
United States
Leisure as a Tool for Progress and Risk
A Times Idaho editor argues that fifteen minutes daily of constructive leisure can yield education and major insights, citing historic achievements born in idle moments. He warns leisure can also breed vice, but with guidance it becomes a path to progress rather than decay.
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Richard H. Waldo
McClure
Spokane
A. Wickware
Times
Priest River
Idaho
Mutiny Recall on Bounty Returns to Tahiti
Christian who led the Bounty after the famous mutiny sails back to Tahiti and stays ten days. The ship then departs with nine Tahitian men twelve women and eight boys aboard who beg to remain. Oaiera are taken aboard after visits to nearby islands.
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Bounty
Christian
Tahiti
Something Wrong With The Law
This piece argues the bankruptcy law permits abuse by debtors who defraud creditors. It contends the law should protect honest borrowers, close loopholes, and stop easy debt cancellations by pen strokes. The author urges fixes to curb deceptive filings and remove loopholes.
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McComb
Mins
Frat misaddressed letter meets Mars stamp joke
A man tried to mail a letter to Mars with a two cent stamp but the Post Office returned it marked Inefficient Postage. The note also mentions cranberry domestication as a sidenote to relate berries and their relatives.
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Post Office
Mars
Moving Qualities In Faithful Hearts And Sincere Minds
Quote from Zimmerman notes the limits of passion and madness in swaying affections, confidence, and hatred, warning that true hearts resist manipulation. The reflection surveys how sincerity outlasts deceit in human relations.
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Zimmerman
Origin of the Freemason Level Emblem On the Level
The article notes that the phrase on the level originates in Freemasonry as the level emblem central to the fraternity’s symbolism and practice. It explains how the term reflects the Masonic ideals of equality and upright conduct among members.
Two Forms of Happiness In Love and Wisdom
A compact aphorism notes two paths to happiness. It contrasts securing the affection of worthy men with the later goal of freeing oneself from fools and scoundrels, echoing early modern wit on social strategy and personal worth.
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Pope
Sola at 100 per cent edge stock limited offer
A historic newspaper snippet notes a limited stock sale running until March 1 1982 with a 25 price and urges readers to tell friends. It mentions Mio Bopp visiting Rapids with her daughter Neila Cady Desorah and Tabitha Society raising close to 60 dollars from a Thanksgiving dinner at the Baptist church for charity.
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Tabitha Sociéty
Baptist Church
The Broadcaster’s Annual Question And The Chestnut Tree
The Broadcaster reflects on taxes and prices while under the spreading chestnut tree. Smith works hard selling gasoline hot dogs and orange juice as local life and commerce mix. Miss V jokes about college boys and a tuba player. A brisk note mentions a new class and a Sunfire coal car arriving soon with low ash and high heat, offered at a real price to customers.
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Wadena
Wadena News
Berg's
Alden Gell
Sam Jennings
West Union
Henry Jennings
Volga City
S. M. Jennings
J. C. Kennedy
George Jennings
Oelwein
Ted Larson
James
Waterloo
B. A
Scout Troop 77
John Hinkle
Russell Hinkle
John Wood
Frank Wetzel
Francis Walters
Chas. Miller
Francis Corkery
Dee
Clem Messerli
Lawrence Welsh
Jennings House
Elgin
Donald Leonhart
Geo. Jones Jr
Alden Oelberg
Frank Raftis
Ted Welch
Roy Leonhart
Mr. Welch
Won Union
Mrs. Clair Everetts
Sarah Fitzgibbon
Lamont
H. E. Broughton
Ralph Reed
Walter Cook
la Fonda
Genevieve Leonhart
Arlington
J.D. Molumby
A.C. Cook
John
Florence SL
Margaret
H. &. Groth
Jens Halverson
Frank Poor
Grace
Delwe
Lyman Fox
S. M
B. A. Jennings
Everett Patrick
H. W. Whitcher
James Kennedy
Mason City
Frank Welch
John Walters
H. H. Whitcher
Milford Knutson
Independence
A. J. Knutson
Mrs
Ed Gernand
Clarence Nuss
C. C. Corbin
Luther Crandall and Sons
Roy Hinkle
Bloomington
Mae Hinkle
Jens Halverson and Sons
Edgar Kimball
Jess Poor
F. H. Poor
Lucian Hicks
United Brethren Church
Pfacrre—Se
Presbyterian Church
J. A. Boleyn
Elgin, Iowa
Mio Bopp
Daughter
Neila Cady Desorah
Chas, Greeny
Miss V
Miss B
Carpenter
Schori & Kuster
Iowa
State Bank
Braunch
Typewriter
Echo
Clermont
Reliable Business Machines Company of
New Hampton
Royal
Remington
Elgin Echo
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